[slime-devel] Trouble getting slime to work on Mac OS X

[Marco Baringer]

David Meredith <dave at titanmusic.com> writes:

> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.7. I'm trying to get SLIME 1.0
> to work with either CMUCL or SBCL. I load slime with M-x slime and I get the
> following message in the *inferior-lisp* buffer:

i would strongly suggest getting a more recent slime.

> * ;; Swank started at port: 49577.
>
> 49577
> * 
>
> Error in function CREATE-INET-LISTENER:
>    Error binding socket to port 0: Can't assign requested address
>    [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]

this is (often) a sympton of not being able to resolve localhost. try
changing the occurences of "localhost" to "127.0.0.1" in slime.el (or
upgrade to cvs slime).

-- 
-Marco
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